Jayapura, Papua – Amid armed groups unleashing a spate of violence in Papua, the nationwide police chief has actually approved Papua Police chief, Insp.Gen.Paulus Waterpauw, as the commandant of the Nemangkawi Job Force.
Announcing the choice here on Wednesday, Waterpauw stated it would permit better and simpler coordination of security and public order functions. The job force’s office has also been moved from Timika in Mimika district to Jayapura, the capital of Papua province, he told ANTARA
Waterpauw said Papua’s security and public order situation has actually mostly stayed favorable, however security disturbances have actually been reported sporadically from numerous areas where armed Papuan groups run, such as Intan Jaya district.
According to reports, a number of notorious armed Papuan groups run around Intan Jaya, including the one led by Sabinus Waker, he informed.
Equipped groups operating from the district have actually been repeatedly associated with gunfights with security workers, he stated including, they have also gone on a shooting rampage targeting innocent civilians.
To deal with this security difficulty, a strategy had actually been created to send out more personnel to the district, but it has stayed hindered by limited availability of centers there, Waterpauw notified.
ANTARA has reported that the security operation “Operation Nemangkawi” was launched in 2019 following the massacre of 31 workers from PT Istaka Karya in Kali Yigi and Kali Aurak in Yigi sub-district, Nduga district, on December 2, 2018.
Armed Papuan rebels, who were supposedly behind the brutal killings of the Trans Papua building and construction workers, also eliminated a soldier, identified as Handoko, and injured two other security personnel, Sugeng and Wahyu.
Papua has actually been witness to a repeated cycle of violence, with armed groups in the districts of Intan Jaya, Nduga, and Puncak targeting civilians and security workers over the past 2 years.
Early today, an armed rebel reportedly shot a 32- year-old guy at close range in Bilogai town in Sugapa sub-district, Puncak district.
The male, determined as Rusman HR alias Aco, a motorbike taxi (ojek) chauffeur, was stabbed to death by 6 armed Papuans in a street near Ilambet town in Ilaga sub-district, Puncak district, Papua.
He sustained severe stab wounds on the back and passed away of exsanguination while attempting to escape his assailants. Rusman’s body was flown to Timika on an Asian One Air aircraft on Wednesday.
Intan Jaya recorded its bloodiest month in September, 2020, with armed groups introducing a series of attacks in the area that claimed the lives of 2 soldiers and 2 civilians and left 2 others injured.
The acts of fear have actually continued this year. On January 10, 2021, for example, an Indonesian soldier passed away in a gunfight in the Titigi location of Intan Jaya district.
On January 6, 2021, 10 armed Papuan wrongdoers apparently vandalized and torched a Quest Kodiak airplane belonging to Objective Aviation Fellowship (MAF) at the Pagamba village airstrip.
The armed males, led by Sabinus Waker, presumably set ablaze the utility airplane, bearing the registration number PK-MAX, not long after its American pilot Alek Luferchek disembarked 2 passengers.
The torching of the civilian airplane was a ruthless act considering that MAF airplanes have, since decades, performed a noble objective for Papuan neighborhoods, Leader of the Cenderawasih Armed Force Command, Maj. Gen. Ignatius Yogo Triyono, said. (INE)
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